Up in the air with ArduPilot

The first successful flight of a drone, or unmanned air vehicle (UAV) running on ArduPilot was recently announced.

This UAV is powered by a Zynq, a dual-core ARM with an onboard FPGA. This FPGA makes the difference, leaving alone the first flight of a drone using ArduPilot. Using this FPGA allows the controller to handle real-time control tasks including video feeds and flight dynamics much quicker and more efficiently.

The code implemented will be published on the OcPoc project, an open source initiative with Dronecode.

Source: hackaday.com